Cause and Effect: Distortion and Disease
We think:
First cause happens
Then effect happens
Dr. Parth says:
Cause is already the effect.
Effect is already the cause.
They arise together.
Example:
A seed becomes a sprout.
But the sprout was already inside the seed.
And the seed was already the result of a previous sprout.
So which is the cause?
Which is the effect?
They are interlinked consequences, not isolated events.
Whatever you do, think, feel, or even intend —
creates a cause. Life returns that back to you as an effect. That’s all.
When we say cause and effect, most people think of it like school physics: “If I do this, that will happen.”
But the ancient scriptures never spoke of it in such a childish way.
In the yogic sciences, in the Upanishads, even in the Bhagavad Gita, cause and effect is not about events. It is about the inner mechanics of life.
The rishis said something very simple:
“What you hold within you becomes your cause. What happens to you becomes its effect.”
Disease is not “roots and branches.”
It is simply actions and consequences.
Cause and effect.
Today we are proud of managing the outside.
People boast about how fast they can run, how many mountains they can climb, how many degrees they have collected.
But ask them one simple question:
“Can you manage your breath? Your thought? Your emotion?”
The scriptures say,
“If the inner is scattered, the outer will always become suffering.”
This is the fundamental cause. Everything else is only effect.
Disease: A Play of Cause and Effect
Modern medicine believes disease is like a tree — with roots and branches.
So they dig, cut, stitch, replace, correct.
Nothing wrong in that — it saves lives.
But the yogic sciences have always been very clear:
Disease is not root and branch.
Disease is cause and effect.
Your body is not committing any crime.
It is simply responding to the way you live, the way you think, the way you breathe, the way you experience life.
If the cause is disorder within you, the effect will naturally be disorder in the body.
The scriptures say:
“Shariram vyadhi-mandiram — the body becomes a house of disease
when the prana is in disarray.”
Not because of some ‘root’ the doctor couldn’t find.
Not because nature suddenly turned against you.
It is effect — the consequence of an inner disturbance.
Why Modern Medicine Misses This
Modern medicine looks at what is visible.
It sees the effect: a swelling, an infection, a hormone imbalance, a blockage.
Naturally its solution becomes mechanical:
Cut it. Stitch it. Correct it. Replace it.
But the scriptures say,
“If you correct the effect without addressing the cause,
it will return in another form.”
This is why the same disease comes back.
This is why new diseases appear.
This is why people take a hundred tablets but still have no peace.
“Life is cause and effect.
You cannot pick the effect and escape the cause.”
Because effect is being treated.
Cause is being ignored.
Inner Science Is About Cause
Yogic science, the Upanishads, Ayurveda, Siddha — they all say the same thing in different ways:
“If you realign the cause,
the effect dissolves.”
If your breath becomes steady,
your mind becomes clear.
If your mind becomes clear,
your body returns to balance.
If your energy becomes harmonious,
disease simply has no space left to exist.
This is not philosophy.
This is inner engineering.
This is human science.
The scriptures did not give theories.
They gave tools — to realign cause.
Meditation, breath, awareness, inner stillness — these are not spiritual decorations.
They are technologies to correct the source-code of your existence.
The Real Question
The problem today is not lack of medicine.
It is lack of mastery over oneself.
The scriptures ask one blunt question:
“If you cannot manage what happens within you,
how will you manage what happens around you?”
If the cause is in your hands,
the effect is also in your hands.
Otherwise, life becomes an endless cycle of stitching and correction — outside.
Why You Cannot Escape Experience
You cannot escape experience because existence happens to you only in the form of experience.
You do not know the world as it is — you only know it as it happens within you.
You see light — that is an experience.
You hear sound — that is an experience.
You feel pain or joy — again, an experience.
Even if you close your eyes, sit in a cave, stay away from people, or renounce the world, you are still experiencing something — silence, darkness, breath, thought, energy.
There is no such thing as a human being without experience.
In the yogic sciences, it is said:
“Pratyakshaṁ anubhavaṁ brahma.”
That which you directly experience is the only doorway to Truth.
Why?
Because:
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Your body is experience.
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Your mind is experience.
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Your emotions are experience.
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Your karmas are stored experiences.
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Your very sense of “I” is nothing but accumulated experience.
So how can you escape it?
You may avoid situations, but you cannot avoid experience.
Wherever you go, you carry the instrument of experience with you — the body and mind.
Even death is not an escape.
It is only a change of body; your experiences, your imprints — your karma — move with you.
This is why scriptures say:
“Karma follows like a shadow.”
Because karma is nothing but unfinished, unresolved experience.
Until it is dissolved, transformed, or transcended, it travels with you.
You can escape people.
You can escape places.
You can escape responsibilities.
But escaping experience is impossible —
because experience is the very fabric of your existence.
The only true freedom is not in escaping experience,
but in mastering the way you experience life.
When you master that,
experience stops binding you —
and becomes your doorway to liberation.
The Myth of the Root Cause
For thousands of years, people have been obsessed with one question:
“What is the root cause of my suffering?”
Modern medicine says:
Find the root and cure it.
Psychology says:
It’s in your childhood.
Energy sciences say:
It’s in your chakras.
Some say the root is in your bones,
some say it is in your mind,
recently many started claiming it is in your energies.
Everyone is searching for a root,
because they have still not reached.
But Dr. Parth points to something radically different.
There Is No Root Cause
The entire idea of a “root cause” is:
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a misunderstanding,
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an intellectual creation,
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a tool for analysis — not the truth.
Dr. Parth clearly says:
“The cause is the effect, and the effect is the cause.
They rise together like a seed and the sprout.”
In other words:
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Cause becomes effect.
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Effect becomes cause.
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They are not two separate things.
They are two sides of one happening.
Life Does Not Happen in Parts
Body, mind, emotion, energy —
they are not four compartments.
They are one continuous field.
So what you call “cause” is simply the part you are noticing.
What you call “effect” is the part you are feeling.
Pain in the body may show as emotion.
Emotion may show as disease.
Disease may show as fatigue.
Fatigue may show as mental weakness.
Tell me — which one is the cause?
Which one is the effect?
They are feeding each other,
generating each other,
sustaining each other.
That is why Dr. Parth says:
“Cause and effect are illusions created by separation.”
The Problem Is Division — Not Disease
When you divide life in your mind,
you create cause and effect.
But existence never divided anything.
In truth:
“Life is one happening.” – Dr. Parth
You suffer only when you look at it in fragments.
You heal when you experience it as a whole.
Why This Matters for Healing
If you chase “root causes,”
you will keep running in circles.
If you see the whole experience,
you begin to transform from within.
Modern medicine excels at correcting chemistry from the outside.
But the healing Dr. Parth speaks about
happens only when your awareness shifts.
Because:
“When the viewer transforms,
the cause dissolves,
the effect dissolves,
and only life remains.” – Dr. Parth
References:
In the scriptures, cause and effect is not described the way modern thinking imagines it — as two separate events happening one after another. It is understood as one inseparable process, like two sides of the same coin.
1. Upanishads: Cause and effect are one continuum.
The Mundaka Upanishad says the universe arises like a spider and its web —
the web (effect) is nothing but the spider (cause) expressing itself.
Meaning:
Cause is not somewhere else.
Effect is not later.
The effect is made of the cause.
2. Bhagavad Gita: Cause and effect are intertwined through perception.
In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna says:
“The world is woven by your guna and your perception.”
Your experience (effect) arises from your inner state (cause),
and your inner state is shaped again by your experience —
a continuous loop.
Meaning:
Cause creates effect.
Effect modifies cause.
Neither exists independently.
3. Yoga Sutras: Misperception is the real cause.
Patanjali says:
Avidyā (ignorance) is the root of all suffering.
But he clarifies:
Ignorance is not lack of information —
it is mistaken perception, seeing the unreal as real.
Meaning:
Your distorted perception (cause)
creates distorted experience (effect).
When perception clears, effect dissolves.
4. Vedanta: Effect exists inside the cause.
Vedantic texts use a classic example:
Pot (effect) exists inside clay (cause).
When you break the pot, clay remains.
The effect never truly existed separately.
Meaning:
Effect is just a form of the cause.
They are never two.
5. Buddhism: Cause and effect arise simultaneously.
Buddhism calls this Pratītya-Samutpāda — dependent arising.
It states clearly:
Cause and effect co-arise.
Effect is not “after.”
Effect is within the cause.
Like seed and sprout — one contains the other.
6. Kashmir Shaivism: Cause and effect are just modifications of awareness.
Texts like the Spanda Karikas say:
Everything is a vibration (spanda) of consciousness.
Cause and effect are simply the movements of that consciousness.
Meaning:
Cause = a movement in awareness
Effect = your experience of that movement
Both are the same play.
So what is cause and effect as per scripture?
Cause and effect are not separate.
Effect is contained inside the cause,
and the cause is revealed through the effect.
Both are held together in your awareness.**
This is why scriptures say:
You cannot escape experience.
You can only transform the one who experiences.
If you learn the Code of Nature, if you align your system with the geometry of creation, you will live light, joyful, effortless — with a certain sweetness and ecstasy flowing in your heart.
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